Texas Tech's lawyers have notified a local court that it plans to appeal preliminary rulings in its legal battle with Mike Leach.
The university is appealing a June 15 ruling by District Judge Bill Sowder that would allow the former football coach to move forward with his lawsuit on grounds Tech may have violated his contract when it fired him in December for allegedly mistreating an injured player.

Mike Leach's legal team has set in motion an appeals process that should soon land in an appellate court in Amarillo.
The former coach's lawyers have filed paperwork with the 99th District Court that they intend to appeal District Judge Bill Sowder's ruling on June 15 that Texas Tech can only be sued on grounds it may have violated the former coach's contract.
Leach lawyer Paul Dobrowski said the paperwork is an effort "just to get things cranking" in what could be a lengthy appeals process.

A district judge continued to prune Mike Leach's lawsuit against Texas Tech on Tuesday by dismissing two more individuals from the legal melange. Sowder has now thrown all but one of them out. His rulings, if upheld in an expected appeal, have essentially...

District Judge Bill Sowder has dismissed two members of the Texas Tech Board of Regents from former football coach Mike Leach's lawsuit against the university.
The judge ruled today to uphold Tech's request to remove from the lawsuit regents Larry Anders and Jerry Turner, the chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of Tech's governing body.
Leach had included them as defendants in the lawsuit after claiming they had overstepped their bounds as regents in the days leading up to the coach's firing in late December.